Luna & A Year Of Delayed Reflections

There are many patterns you can track with the moon, but keeping with similar patterning to the other journeys, the most obvious lunar journey is through its 29.5-day cycle of lunar phases. This journey takes us from a pressure point at the new moon, around and back again, to the next new moon.

You could track each new moon’s seed through its own solar year as thirteen cycles that stagger in their unfolding (there are typically 13 new moons per solar year), but that’s a more complex journey, entangled with the solar journey. To keep strictly to a Lunar Journey, the Memoirist’s Journey, I like to use the 29-day cycle.

To me, this journey shows what we are reflecting on and the mood of things. I’ll give an example. As I write this, the Libra new moon in 2025 has just taken place on nearly the last day of the Libra solar season. While the sun has had us reaching, creating, and aspiring toward Libra themes of elegance, balance, and peace, the moon, for the whole of the season, save the last day or two, was on a Virgo reflective journey, as that was the last new moon reflective theme until today’s Libra New Moon. This has given much of the season a reflective tone and mood colored by Virgo. While I’ve created and aspired toward balance and peace, I’ve reflected on and felt a lot about discernment, organization, health, and work.

The 29-day lunar journey works in the subconscious. It requires living an examined life to become aware of and use its reflective powers with intention and for growth. It’s much easier to be taken by our mood, the tides, and the ebb and flow that comes with the lunar phases, not really tapping into the way they can help us become more aware of what’s under the surface, how we really feel, what our memories are trying to help us recognize, and intuition trying to help us with second sight.

While I have my own way of mapping the lunar phases onto my basic 12-stage journey structure, this journey isn’t so much about moving ahead, but about becoming more aware of and empathetic about remembrance. It’s a path to recognizing what’s been right in front of us.

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The Memoirist's Journey: 2026 Lunar Guide

How to Read This Guide

The lunar journey is different from solar and synodic journeys. Where the sun guides our conscious aspirations and planetary relationships shape our creative dialogues, the moon reveals what we're reflecting on - the emotional undertones, the memories surfacing, the intuitive knowing beneath our everyday awareness.

The 29.5-Day Cycle: Each new moon seeds a reflective theme based on its zodiac sign. This theme unfolds over approximately 29 days as the moon travels through all twelve signs, creating a 12-stage journey from seed to completion.

Understanding the Stages: The stages aren't tied to specific dates but to the moon's position in the zodiac relative to the sun's position. Each sign the moon moves forward from the sun represents the next stage of reflection:

• Stage 1 occurs when the moon is in the same sign as the sun

• Stage 2 occurs when the moon moves to the next sign

• Stage 3 the sign after that, and so on

The Lag Effect: In 2026, most new moons occur late in their solar season, creating a "lag" between what we're consciously aspiring toward (sun) and what we're emotionally processing (moon). For example, during much of Capricorn season, you might be reflecting on Sagittarius themes even while building Capricorn structures.

When the Sun Changes Signs: When the sun moves into a new sign mid-cycle, the stage numbers shift. The moon might briefly be in Stage 2, then "reset" back to Stage 1 when the sun catches up. These moments are noted in each journey. Don't overthink this - simply notice which sign the moon is in and count forward from wherever the sun currently sits.

The Draconic Undertone: Each new moon also carries a draconic signature - this year, the draconic zodiac is one sign forward from its tropical placement. This adds a subtle undertone of reintegration, like a second house expression of values and self-worth woven through the reflection.

How to Use This Guide:

• Read the overall theme when the new moon occurs to understand what you'll be reflecting on

• Check in with each stage as the moon moves through the signs

• Use the reflective prompts as journal questions or meditation focuses

• Notice the mood and emotional weather of each phase

• This is subconscious work - you may not "feel" it consciously unless you're living an examined life

The Two Eclipses: 2026 contains two solar eclipses - February 17 (Aquarius, annular) and August 12 (Leo, total). These are intensified new moons, inviting deeper shadow work and more dramatic shifts in emotional awareness.

Let the journey help you see what's been right in front of you all along.

Note Which House the New Moon Illuminates: Look at your sun and rising charts to see which house your reflections are anchored in—the house the new moon seeds in. This will add individual nuance to each 29-day lunar journey.

• 1st house: Self, passion, confidence, demolition, clearing space, direction, breakthroughs, assertion, physicality

• 2nd house: Value, self-worth, beauty, finances, voice, embodiment, pleasure, the 5 senses

• 3rd house: learning, mental health, community and peers, connection, and intelligence

• 4th house: home, family, security, depth, imagination, inner world, women, mothers, ancestry, DNA

• 5th house: creativity, leadership, heart, love, leisure, recreation, romance, kids, play, competition

• 6th house: work, wellness, well-being, lifestyle, duties, purpose, health, rituals, rhythm

• 7th house: relationships, design, partnering, tension, harmony, peace, justice, diplomacy, negotiation, accountability

• 8th house: intimacy, wealth/debt, sharing, control, psyche, empowerment, taruma, vulnerability

• 9th house: perspective, beliefs, religion, narrative, PR, vision, seeking, boundary-pushing, foreign things

• 10th house: career, aspirations, status, position, mastery, integrity, alignment, responsibility, recognition

• 11th house: humanity, groups, friendship, innovation, future vision, contribution, collaboration

• 12th house: mysticism, art, spirituality, institutions, confinement, isolation, shadow work, illusion, isolation

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The 13 New Moons of 2026

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Sagittarius New Moon

December 19, 2025 - January 17, 2026

Reflective Theme: Truth-seeking, meaning-making, the search for wisdom, philosophical understanding, expansion of perspective, faith and belief systems

Draconic Undertone (Capricorn): Reintegrating structure, mastery, and authority as values. What truths have earned their place as pillars in your life? What wisdom deserves to be built upon?

Literary Reflection: Like Cheryl Strayed on the Pacific Crest Trail in Wild, pausing on a ridge to look back at the miles traveled, not to celebrate conquest but to ask: "What was I really looking for out here?" The seeking itself becomes the subject of reflection. The journey that seemed about escape reveals itself as a search for something true to stand on.

Stage 1: Seed of Reflection

Moon in Sagittarius (Dec 19) / Moon in Capricorn (Dec 20, Sun in Sag) / Moon in Capricorn (Dec 21+, Sun enters Cap)

The pressure point. What truth is asking to be noticed?

This cycle plants a seed about meaning - what gives your life direction and purpose? As the Moon moves through Capricorn while the Sun transitions, notice the brief moment where your reflection reaches toward structure before settling back into alignment. What truths are you being asked to examine? What beliefs are calling for your attention?

Reflective Prompts:

• What have I been seeking without naming it?

• What truth am I ready to look at directly?

• What beliefs are showing up in my emotional landscape?

Stage 2: Loosening

Moon in Aquarius

Old patterns of belief breaking down. Spacious detachment.

Your reflection takes on an objective quality. Step back from the fervor of seeking and observe: which philosophies or truths have you been clinging to out of habit? What beliefs feel ready to be released? There's a cool spaciousness here, like looking at your own map of meaning from a distance.

Reflective Prompts:

• What truths served me once but feel outdated now?

• Where am I holding onto beliefs that no longer fit?

• What opens up when I detach from needing to know?

Stage 3: Incubating Awareness

Moon in Pisces

Complex inner work. Feelings and memories gestating.

Your reflection dissolves into the depths. Truth becomes fluid here - not rigid philosophy but felt knowing. What wisdom is gestating beneath conscious awareness? Dreams, intuitions, and memories blend together. The meaning you seek isn't in books or beliefs but in the mysterious feeling-sense that guides you.

Reflective Prompts:

• What does my intuition know that my mind hasn't caught up to yet?

• What memories hold wisdom I haven't fully absorbed?

• Where does my seeking want to surrender into simply feeling?

Stage 4: Recognition

Moon in Aries

First impulses of awareness breaking through. "Oh, I see what I'm feeling."

A spark! Sudden clarity about what you've actually been searching for. The gentle incubation gives way to direct recognition - bold, immediate, honest. Your reflection finds its courage here. What truth is breaking through with urgency? What do you suddenly see that demands acknowledgment?

Reflective Prompts:

• What truth am I suddenly brave enough to admit?

• What realization is demanding my immediate attention?

• Where does my reflection want to become action?

Stage 5: Sorting

Moon in Taurus

Duality emerges. Sorting through feelings and intuitions.

Now comes the work of determining what's real and lasting. Which insights have substance? Which truths have roots? Your reflection slows down, becomes tactile and grounded. You're separating the fleeting inspiration from the wisdom that deserves to be kept and tended. What's worth building on?

Reflective Prompts:

• Which of these realizations have real weight and substance?

• What truths feel nourishing versus depleting?

• What wisdom wants to be embodied, not just understood?

Stage 6: Connecting the Dots

Moon in Gemini

Weaving insights together. Patterns become visible.

Your reflection becomes articulate. All these separate moments of awareness start forming a coherent story. How does this truth relate to that memory? How does this belief connect to that experience? You're finding the narrative thread that weaves your seeking into meaning. The pattern reveals itself through curiosity and conversation.

Reflective Prompts:

• What story is emerging from all these separate insights?

• How do my various truths speak to each other?

• Who or what helps me articulate what I'm learning?

Stage 7: Illumination

Moon in Cancer

Peak clarity. What was hidden is now seen. The mirror shows us ourselves.

Full moon energy - the emotional truth at the heart of your seeking becomes undeniable. This is where you feel the meaning you've been reflecting on. It's not intellectual anymore; it's visceral, tender, vulnerable. The truth you've been circling shows you something about home, belonging, and what you truly need to feel safe in your beliefs.

Reflective Prompts:

• What emotional truth sits at the center of my seeking?

• What does this reflection reveal about what I need to feel secure?

• How does my search for meaning relate to my search for belonging?

Stage 8: Integration

Moon in Leo

Taking root with what we've learned. Stepping into emotional leadership.

You begin to own this reflection. The wisdom you've been processing becomes part of your identity, your creative expression, your authentic presence. This isn't someone else's truth borrowed - it's yours, integrated, embodied. You're ready to stand in it, let it shine through you. What does it mean to lead with this understanding?

Reflective Prompts:

• How does this wisdom want to express through me uniquely?

• What does it mean to own this truth as mine?

• Where am I being called to lead with what I've learned?

Stage 9: Purpose

Moon in Virgo

Finding duty in our awareness. What is this reflection asking us to honor or tend to?

Your reflection becomes practical service. What does this wisdom ask you to do? How does it call you to show up differently in your daily life? The grand philosophical seeking becomes humble practice. Truth isn't just something you understand - it's something you serve through careful attention and devoted action.

Reflective Prompts:

• What daily practice honors this understanding?

• How does this wisdom want to be of service?

• What small, devoted actions align with this truth?

Stage 10: Sharing

Moon in Libra

Bringing our insights into relationship. Cooperation with what we've learned.

Your private reflection enters dialogue. How does this wisdom change in the presence of others? What needs refining through relationship? You're testing your truths against beauty, balance, and other perspectives. The meaning you've been processing wants to find its place in connection.

Reflective Prompts:

• How does my truth need to make room for others' truths?

• What becomes more beautiful when shared?

• Where does my reflection seek partnership?

Stage 11: Alchemy

Moon in Scorpio

Communal integration. Transformation through shared reflection.

Deep transformation through collective vulnerability. Your private seeking becomes shared shadow work. What transmutes when you bring this reflection into the depths with others? There's power here - the wisdom you've been processing wants to merge with something larger, become part of collective transformation. What dies so something truer can be born?

Reflective Prompts:

• What needs to be surrendered for this wisdom to fully transform me?

• How does vulnerability deepen this truth?

• What becomes possible when this reflection is shared in the depths?

Stage 12: Wisdom & Completion

Moon in Sagittarius

The harvest of understanding. Releasing back into mystery.

Full circle. Your reflection returns to Sagittarius, but now it carries the wisdom of the entire journey. What have you learned about your seeking? What truth has this cycle revealed? There's a quality of completion - not that you've arrived at final answers, but that this particular inquiry has given its gifts. You release it back into the mystery, making space for the next seed of reflection.

Reflective Prompts:

• What has this cycle taught me about meaning and truth?

• What wisdom am I carrying forward?

• What am I ready to release back into not-knowing?

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Capricorn New Moon

January 18 - February 16, 2026

Reflective Theme: Structure, mastery, authority, legacy, achievement, the bones that hold us up, responsibility, time and maturation

Draconic Undertone (Aquarius): Reintegrating innovation, community, and liberation as values. What structures truly serve collective freedom? What mastery enables others' autonomy?

Literary Reflection: Like Jhumpa Lahiri in In Other Words, reflecting on the architecture of language itself - the years of discipline, the slow building of mastery, the way structure paradoxically creates freedom. "I wanted to overcome an obstacle. To find a new way to express myself." The reflection on what we've built, brick by patient brick.

Stage 1: Seed of Reflection

Moon in Capricorn (Jan 18) / Moon in Aquarius (Jan 19, Sun enters Aquarius - back to Stage 1)

The pressure point. What structure is asking to be noticed?

This cycle plants a seed about what you've built and what's building you. What foundations are you standing on? What responsibilities shape your days? Notice the quick shift as the moon moves to Aquarius just as the sun does too - a brief glimpse forward before realignment. What are you being asked to examine about authority, time, and what endures?

Reflective Prompts:

• What have I built that I'm not fully acknowledging?

• Where do I carry responsibility without recognizing its weight?

• What structures in my life deserve more conscious attention?

Stage 2: Loosening

Moon in Pisces

Old patterns of structure breaking down. Spacious detachment.

Your reflection on achievement and mastery begins to dissolve at the edges. What rigid structures are ready to soften? Where has your sense of responsibility become prison rather than purpose? There's relief here - permission to step back from the mountain and see it from a distance, to question what you thought was unquestionable.

Reflective Prompts:

• What authority am I ready to release?

• Where has structure become too rigid?

• What opens up when I stop climbing?

Stage 3: Incubating Awareness

Moon in Aries

Complex inner work. Feelings and memories gestating.

Bold new awareness is gestating about your relationship to achievement and power. What's emerging is different from what you've been told about success. There's a raw, honest quality forming beneath the surface - a truth about what you actually want to build versus what you think you should. The pressure to perform gives way to something more authentic.

Reflective Prompts:

• What does my body know about success that my mind refuses?

• What memories are showing me a different kind of mastery?

• Where is my reflection finding its courage?

Stage 4: Recognition

Moon in Taurus

First impulses of awareness breaking through. "Oh, I see what I'm feeling."

Sudden recognition about what truly has lasting value. Not all achievements matter equally. Not all structures serve life. Your reflection grounds into what's real, what nourishes, what you can actually build a sustainable life upon. You see clearly now: some mountains aren't worth climbing.

Reflective Prompts:

• What do I recognize as truly valuable versus just valued by others?

• What structure in my life actually feels solid and nourishing?

• What realization about mastery is breaking through?

Stage 5: Sorting

Moon in Gemini

Duality emerges. Sorting through feelings and intuitions.

Now you're sorting through all the different ideas about success, responsibility, and authority. Which voices matter? Which teachings serve? Your reflection becomes curious, asking questions, testing assumptions. You're finding language for what you're learning about structure - how to articulate a different relationship to achievement.

Reflective Prompts:

• Which teachings about success actually resonate versus which I've just absorbed?

• What duality am I navigating between old and new structures?

• How can I articulate what I'm learning about responsibility?

Stage 6: Connecting the Dots

Moon in Cancer

Weaving insights together. Patterns become visible.

All these reflections on structure suddenly connect to home, safety, and emotional foundation. You see the pattern: the way you build externally mirrors what you needed internally. The way you take responsibility relates to how you were taught to earn belonging. Your reflection weaves together achievement and nurturing into a coherent understanding.

Reflective Prompts:

• How does my relationship to achievement connect to my need for security?

• What pattern links my external structures to my internal foundation?

• Where do mastery and mothering intersect in my story?

Stage 7: Illumination

Moon in Leo

Peak clarity. What was hidden is now seen. The mirror shows us ourselves.

Full moon energy - the truth about your relationship to power, recognition, and creative authority becomes undeniable. This is where you feel what you've actually built and who you've become. It's not just about structures anymore; it's about the heart that built them. What do you see when you look at your own legacy in progress?

Reflective Prompts:

• What does this reflection reveal about my relationship to my own power?

• How do I feel about what I've created?

• What truth about authority and authenticity is illuminated?

Stage 8: Integration

Moon in Virgo

Taking root with what we've learned. Stepping into emotional leadership.

You begin to integrate this new understanding of structure and mastery into daily practice. The grand reflections become humble actions. You own your authority differently now - as service, as craft, as devoted attention to what matters. Leadership becomes less about the summit and more about the work itself.

Reflective Prompts:

• How does this wisdom change my daily practice?

• What does it mean to embody authority as service?

• Where am I being called to lead through devoted action?

Stage 9: Purpose

Moon in Libra

Finding duty in our awareness. What is this reflection asking us to honor or tend to?

Your reflection finds its purpose in relationship and beauty. What structures serve partnership? What responsibility honors balance? The duty isn't just personal achievement - it's creating frameworks that allow everyone to thrive. How does your mastery contribute to collective harmony?

Reflective Prompts:

• What structures want to serve relationship rather than ego?

• How does my responsibility extend to creating beauty and balance?

• What practice honors both mastery and connection?

Stage 10: Sharing

Moon in Scorpio

Bringing our insights into relationship. Cooperation with what we've learned.

Your private reflection on structure enters the depths with others. What transforms when you share your relationship to power? There's vulnerability here - letting others see what you've built and why, revealing the shadows in your achievement. Cooperation means confronting what you've been avoiding about authority.

Reflective Prompts:

• What do I need to reveal about my relationship to power?

• How does sharing my structures create transformation?

• Where does my reflection seek depth and intimacy?

Stage 11: Alchemy

Moon in Sagittarius

Communal integration. Transformation through shared reflection.

Collective transformation of what structure and authority mean. When your private understanding of mastery merges with others' wisdom, something new is born - a different paradigm of achievement, a liberated relationship to responsibility. What transmutes when we build together rather than compete? What dies so collective authority can emerge?

Reflective Prompts:

• What needs to die in my understanding of success?

• How does shared wisdom transform my relationship to structure?

• What becomes possible when authority is collective?

Stage 12: Wisdom & Completion

Moon in Capricorn

The harvest of understanding. Releasing back into mystery.

Full circle. Your reflection returns to Capricorn, but now you carry the wisdom of the entire journey. What have you learned about what you've built? What truth has this cycle revealed about structure, time, and mastery? There's completion here - not that the building is finished, but that you understand why you build at all.

Reflective Prompts:

• What has this cycle taught me about achievement and authority?

• What wisdom about structure am I carrying forward?

• What am I ready to release about responsibility?

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Aquarius New Moon (Annular Solar Eclipse)

February 17 - March 17, 2026

Reflective Theme: Innovation, liberation, community, the collective, revolution, detachment, vision for the future, belonging to humanity

Draconic Undertone (Pisces): Reintegrating compassion, dissolution, and spiritual connection as values. What innovations serve universal love? What liberation includes everyone, even those at the margins?

Literary Reflection: Like Ursula K. Le Guin's narrator in The Dispossessed, reflecting on the wall: "Like all walls it was ambiguous, two-faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side of it you were on." The revolution thought about deeply, the collective questioned lovingly, the vision examined for its shadows.

Eclipse Note: This is an annular solar eclipse - an intensified new moon inviting deeper shadow work around belonging, alienation, and how we hold the tension between individual genius and collective good.

Stage 1: Seed of Reflection

Moon in Aquarius (Feb 17) / Moon in Pisces (Feb 18, Sun enters Pisces - back to Stage 1)

The pressure point. What vision is asking to be noticed?

This cycle plants a seed about your relationship to community and change. Where do you belong? What future are you holding? As an eclipse, this is an intensified moment - something about your connection to the collective is ready to be seen in a new way. The quick shift to Pisces brings dissolution before realignment. What are you being asked to examine about liberation and belonging?

Reflective Prompts:

• Where do I feel truly seen by my community?

• What vision for the future lives in me unacknowledged?

• How do I hold the tension between individuality and belonging?

Stage 2: Loosening

Moon in Aries

Old patterns of rebellion breaking down. Spacious detachment.

Your reflection on revolution and change begins to question itself. What if your idea of liberation has been too narrow? What if your vision of the future unconsciously excludes? There's courage here to step back from certainty, to loosen your grip on being right about change. The revolutionary examines their own revolution.

Reflective Prompts:

• What assumptions about progress am I ready to release?

• Where has my vision of liberation been limited?

• What opens up when I detach from needing to be ahead?

Stage 3: Incubating Awareness

Moon in Taurus

Complex inner work. Feelings and memories gestating.

Something grounded and real is forming beneath your ideas about change. What kind of revolution can you actually sustain? What innovation serves the body, the earth, the simple needs? Your reflection slows down, becomes embodied. The future you're gestating has roots, not just wings.

Reflective Prompts:

• What memories show me sustainable change versus flash-in-the-pan rebellion?

• What does my body know about real transformation?

• Where does my reflection want to ground?

Stage 4: Recognition

Moon in Gemini

First impulses of awareness breaking through. "Oh, I see what I'm feeling."

Sudden clarity through conversation and curiosity. You see it now - the pattern in how you relate to the collective, the way you communicate your vision, the connections that matter. Your reflection becomes articulate, finding language for complex ideas about belonging and change. What truth is breaking through about community?

Reflective Prompts:

• What am I suddenly able to articulate about my place in the collective?

• What realization about innovation is demanding acknowledgment?

• How does dialogue reveal what I've been reflecting on?

Stage 5: Sorting

Moon in Cancer

Duality emerges. Sorting through feelings and intuitions.

Now you're sorting through the emotional truth beneath your ideas about revolution. Which visions of the future actually feel like home? Which communities truly nourish? The duality between detached idealism and emotional need becomes visible. You're finding what's worth fighting for versus what you've been fighting out of habit.

Reflective Prompts:

• Which visions of change actually make me feel safe and held?

• What duality exists between my ideals and my emotional needs?

• How do I sort belonging from merely being seen?

Stage 6: Connecting the Dots

Moon in Leo

Weaving insights together. Patterns become visible.

All these reflections on community and change suddenly connect to your own creative power and leadership. You see the pattern: the way you contribute to the collective, the way your individual genius serves the whole. Your reflection weaves together personal expression and revolutionary vision into coherent understanding. You're not separate from the change - you're part of it.

Reflective Prompts:

• How does my unique contribution connect to collective transformation?

• What pattern links my creative power to communal good?

• Where do individuality and community intersect in my story?

Stage 7: Illumination

Moon in Virgo

Peak clarity. What was hidden is now seen. The mirror shows us ourselves.

Full moon energy - the truth about how you serve the collective becomes undeniable. This is where you feel your role in the whole. It's not about grand visions anymore; it's about daily practice, humble service, the small ways you show up for change. What do you see about your actual contribution versus your ideas about it?

Reflective Prompts:

• What does this reflection reveal about how I actually serve?

• How do I feel about my place in the collective work?

• What truth about useful innovation is illuminated?

Stage 8: Integration

Moon in Libra

Taking root with what we've learned. Stepping into emotional leadership.

You begin to integrate this understanding of community and vision into partnership. The insights about revolution become relational practice. You own your role in collective transformation differently now - as cooperation, as balance, as beautiful exchange. Leadership becomes less about changing the world and more about changing with others.

Reflective Prompts:

• How does this wisdom change how I partner in change?

• What does it mean to embody revolution as relationship?

• Where am I being called to lead through balance?

Stage 9: Purpose

Moon in Scorpio

Finding duty in our awareness. What is this reflection asking us to honor or tend to?

Your reflection finds its purpose in deep transformation and shared power. What innovation serves real change, not just surface revolution? What responsibility comes with vision? The duty isn't comfortable idealism - it's confronting what must die for the new to be born. How does your service to the collective include the shadow?

Reflective Prompts:

• What practice honors both innovation and depth?

• How does my vision account for necessary destruction?

• What duty do I have to the uncomfortable truths of change?

Stage 10: Sharing

Moon in Sagittarius

Bringing our insights into relationship. Cooperation with what we've learned.

Your private reflection on community enters dialogue with wisdom traditions and philosophical truth. What do you learn when you share your vision with those who see differently? Cooperation means allowing your ideas about the future to be expanded, refined, taught by perspectives beyond your own. The collective becomes teacher.

Reflective Prompts:

• How does my vision need to grow through other wisdom?

• What becomes more true when shared with different perspectives?

• Where does my reflection seek expansion through dialogue?

Stage 11: Alchemy

Moon in Capricorn

Communal integration. Transformation through shared reflection.

Collective transformation of what authority and structure mean for the new paradigm. When your vision merges with ancestral wisdom, something alchemizes - revolution becomes evolution, innovation becomes integration. What transmutes when we build the new on bones of the old? What dies so sustainable change can emerge?

Reflective Prompts:

• What needs to die in my understanding of revolution?

• How does honoring structure transform my vision of change?

• What becomes possible when innovation respects what came before?

Stage 12: Wisdom & Completion

Moon in Aquarius

The harvest of understanding. Releasing back into mystery.

Full circle. Your reflection returns to Aquarius, but now you carry the wisdom of the entire journey. What have you learned about your relationship to the collective? What truth has this cycle revealed about belonging, vision, and change? There's completion here - not that the revolution is finished, but that you understand your part in it more clearly.

Reflective Prompts:

• What has this cycle taught me about community and innovation?

• What wisdom about liberation am I carrying forward?

• What am I ready to release about needing to change the world?

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Pisces New Moon

March 18 - April 16, 2026

Reflective Theme: Dissolution, compassion, spiritual connection, dreams, surrender, the oceanic, mystery, universal love, transcendence

Draconic Undertone (Aries): Reintegrating courage, authenticity, and self-assertion as values. What does it mean to honor your individual spark within the infinite? What compassion begins with being honest about who you are?

Literary Reflection: Like Virginia Woolf's narrator in The Waves, reflecting on the boundary between self and sea: "I am not one person; I am many people; I do not know who I am." The self dissolving to see itself more clearly, boundaries blurring not to lose identity but to find it in the everything.

Stage 1: Seed of Reflection

Moon in Pisces (Mar 18) / Moon in Aries (Mar 20, Sun enters Aries - back to Stage 1)

The pressure point. What mystery is asking to be noticed?

This cycle plants a seed about dissolution and connection to something larger than yourself. Where are you being called to surrender? What dreams are asking for attention? Notice the shift to Aries as the sun changes - a glimpse of individual spark before melting back into the oceanic. What are you being asked to examine about spirituality, compassion, and the boundless?

Reflective Prompts:

• Where am I being called to let go and trust?

• What dreams or intuitions keep returning?

• How do I relate to mystery and the unknown?

Stage 2: Loosening

Moon in Taurus

Old patterns of escape breaking down. Spacious detachment.

Your reflection on spirituality and dissolution meets the ground. What if surrender doesn't mean leaving your body? What if compassion includes practical care? There's relief here as fantasies of transcendence give way to embodied spirituality. You're releasing the idea that the divine is elsewhere, that mystery requires abandoning the real.

Reflective Prompts:

• What spiritual bypassing am I ready to release?

• Where has my desire for transcendence become escape?

• What opens up when mystery includes the material?

Stage 3: Incubating Awareness

Moon in Gemini

Complex inner work. Feelings and memories gestating.

Something articulate is forming beneath your oceanic feelings. What story wants to be told about your spiritual journey? What memories are weaving together to show you a pattern in your seeking? Your reflection becomes curious, asking questions of the mystery. The ineffable finding language, slowly.

Reflective Prompts:

• What memories show me how I've always been seeking connection?

• What does my mind know that my spirit hasn't acknowledged?

• Where does my reflection want to become conversation?

Stage 4: Recognition

Moon in Cancer

First impulses of awareness breaking through. "Oh, I see what I'm feeling."

Sudden emotional clarity about what home means spiritually. You see it now - the way your longing for the infinite relates to your need for safety, the way your compassion connects to how you were nurtured (or weren't). Your reflection breaks through with tender recognition. The ocean has always been about belonging.

Reflective Prompts:

• What am I suddenly aware of about spiritual belonging?

• What realization about compassion is breaking through?

• How does my seeking for the divine relate to seeking home?

Stage 5: Sorting

Moon in Leo

Duality emerges. Sorting through feelings and intuitions.

Now you're sorting through the duality between dissolution and individual radiance. Which spiritual experiences actually nourish your authentic self versus which make you disappear? You're finding what's worth holding onto even as you surrender. Some light must remain distinct to shine.

Reflective Prompts:

• Which spiritual practices honor my unique essence versus erase it?

• What duality exists between surrender and self-expression?

• How do I sort genuine transcendence from self-abandonment?

Stage 6: Connecting the Dots

Moon in Virgo

Weaving insights together. Patterns become visible.

All these reflections on mystery and dissolution suddenly connect to daily practice and humble service. You see the pattern: the way your spirituality shows up in small acts of care, the way compassion becomes practical devotion. Your reflection weaves together the infinite and the detailed into coherent understanding. The sacred is in the everyday.

Reflective Prompts:

• How do my spiritual insights connect to my daily practice?

• What pattern links my longing for transcendence to my desire to serve?

• Where do mystery and method intersect in my life?

Stage 7: Illumination

Moon in Libra

Peak clarity. What was hidden is now seen. The mirror shows us ourselves.

Full moon energy - the truth about how you relate to others through your spirituality becomes undeniable. This is where you feel your compassion in relationship. It's not just about personal transcendence; it's about how you hold space for others' humanity. What do you see about connection when the mirror reflects both you and the other?

Reflective Prompts:

• What does this reflection reveal about how I love?

• How do I feel about my capacity for compassion?

• What truth about relationship and spirituality is illuminated?

Stage 8: Integration

Moon in Scorpio

Taking root with what we've learned. Stepping into emotional leadership.

You begin to integrate this understanding of mystery and compassion into depth work. The insights about spirituality become shadow integration. You own your relationship to the infinite differently now - as power, as transformation, as the courage to face what dissolves. Leadership becomes holding space for others' deaths and rebirths.

Reflective Prompts:

• How does this wisdom change how I hold darkness?

• What does it mean to embody spirituality as transformation?

• Where am I being called to lead through depth?

Stage 9: Purpose

Moon in Sagittarius

Finding duty in our awareness. What is this reflection asking us to honor or tend to?

Your reflection finds its purpose in meaning-making and teaching. What wisdom has your spiritual journey yielded? What responsibility comes with your understanding of the infinite? The duty is to translate mystery into meaning, to serve as bridge between the boundless and those still seeking. How does your compassion become guidance?

Reflective Prompts:

• What wisdom has my spiritual journey yielded that wants to be shared?

• How does my understanding of mystery serve as teaching?

• What practice honors both compassion and meaning-making?

Stage 10: Sharing

Moon in Capricorn

Bringing our insights into relationship. Cooperation with what we've learned.

Your private reflection on spirituality enters the world of form and structure. What happens when you bring your understanding of the infinite into practical frameworks? Cooperation means grounding your compassion in sustainable systems. The oceanic finding bones to walk on.

Reflective Prompts:

• How does my spirituality need structure to serve the world?

• What becomes possible when mystery meets mastery?

• Where does my reflection seek manifestation?

Stage 11: Alchemy

Moon in Aquarius

Communal integration. Transformation through shared reflection.

Collective transformation of what spirituality means for the community. When your private understanding of the divine merges with collective vision, something alchemizes - compassion becomes revolution, dissolution becomes liberation. What transmutes when we surrender together? What dies so collective awakening can emerge?

Reflective Prompts:

• What needs to die in my understanding of spirituality?

• How does shared mystery transform isolation into connection?

• What becomes possible when compassion is collective?

Stage 12: Wisdom & Completion

Moon in Pisces

The harvest of understanding. Releasing back into mystery.

Full circle. Your reflection returns to Pisces, but now you carry the wisdom of the entire journey. What have you learned about surrender and connection? What truth has this cycle revealed about compassion, dreams, and the infinite? There's completion here - not that you've solved the mystery, but that you've learned to trust it more deeply.

Reflective Prompts:

• What has this cycle taught me about spirituality and surrender?

• What wisdom about compassion am I carrying forward?

• What am I ready to release back into the ocean?

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Aries New Moon

April 17 - May 15, 2026

Reflective Theme: Courage, authenticity, self-assertion, initiation, the spark of individuality, honest impulse, the warrior, beginning

Draconic Undertone (Taurus): Reintegrating embodiment, sustainability, and worth as values. What courage serves lasting value? What authenticity is grounded enough to endure?

Literary Reflection: Like Maxine Hong Kingston in The Woman Warrior, reflecting on the moment of claiming her own voice: "I had to leave home in order to see the world logically, logic the new way of seeing." The reflection on what it took to become herself, the courage examined in hindsight, the initiation recognized only after living through it.

Stage 1: Seed of Reflection

Moon in Aries (Apr 17) / Moon in Taurus (Apr 19, Sun enters Taurus - back to Stage 1)

The pressure point. What courage is asking to be noticed?

This cycle plants a seed about your relationship to your own will and authentic impulse. Where have you been brave without acknowledging it? What spark of self is asking for attention? Notice the shift to Taurus as grounding arrives quickly. What are you being asked to examine about courage, honesty, and the beginning impulse?

Reflective Prompts:

• Where have I shown courage I haven't given myself credit for?

• What authentic impulse keeps trying to emerge?

• How do I relate to my own will and desire?

Stage 2: Loosening

Moon in Gemini

Old patterns of aggression breaking down. Spacious detachment.

Your reflection on courage and authenticity becomes curious rather than forceful. What if being yourself doesn't require fighting? What if initiation can be gentle? There's relief here as you release the idea that courage must be loud, that authenticity requires burning bridges. You're finding space between impulse and action.

Reflective Prompts:

• What assumptions about courage am I ready to release?

• Where has my authenticity been unnecessarily combative?

• What opens up when I detach from needing to prove myself?

Stage 3: Incubating Awareness

Moon in Cancer

Complex inner work. Feelings and memories gestating.

Something tender is forming beneath your understanding of strength. What memories show you different kinds of courage - the courage to be vulnerable, to stay, to nurture? Your reflection softens into feeling. The warrior discovering that protecting what you love is its own kind of beginning.

Reflective Prompts:

• What memories show me courage I didn't recognize as courage?

• What does my heart know about authentic strength?

• Where does my reflection want to be held rather than fight?

Stage 4: Recognition

Moon in Leo

First impulses of awareness breaking through. "Oh, I see what I'm feeling."

Sudden clarity about your own radiance and creative power. You see it now - the way your authentic self wants to shine, the courage to be fully visible, the initiation into leadership. Your reflection breaks through with bold recognition. Being yourself isn't selfish; it's necessary. Your spark matters.

Reflective Prompts:

• What am I suddenly aware of about my own power?

• What realization about authenticity is demanding acknowledgment?

• How does my courage connect to my creative expression?

Stage 5: Sorting

Moon in Virgo

Duality emerges. Sorting through feelings and intuitions.

Now you're sorting through what's genuine impulse versus reactive ego. Which expressions of self actually serve versus which just make noise? You're finding what authentic courage looks like in practice - not grand gestures but consistent, devoted action. The warrior becoming the craftsperson.

Reflective Prompts:

• Which impulses are genuinely me versus reactions to others?

• What duality exists between authentic action and ego display?

• How do I sort useful courage from unnecessary conflict?

Stage 6: Connecting the Dots

Moon in Libra

Weaving insights together. Patterns become visible.

All these reflections on courage and self suddenly connect to relationship and beauty. You see the pattern: the way your authenticity serves partnership, the way your strength creates space for others' strength. Your reflection weaves together self-assertion and cooperation into coherent understanding. True individuality enhances connection.

Reflective Prompts:

• How does my authentic self actually improve my relationships?

• What pattern links my courage to my capacity for partnership?

• Where do independence and interdependence intersect?

Stage 7: Illumination

Moon in Scorpio

Peak clarity. What was hidden is now seen. The mirror shows us ourselves.

Full moon energy - the truth about your power and depth becomes undeniable. This is where you feel the intensity of your own will and desire. It's not just about courage anymore; it's about what you're willing to transform for, what you're brave enough to die and be reborn into. What do you see about your capacity for profound change?

Reflective Prompts:

• What does this reflection reveal about my relationship to power?

• How do I feel about my capacity for transformation?

• What truth about courage and depth is illuminated?

Stage 8: Integration

Moon in Sagittarius

Taking root with what we've learned. Stepping into emotional leadership.

You begin to integrate this understanding of courage into meaning and teaching. The insights about authenticity become philosophical wisdom. You own your warrior nature differently now - as quest, as exploration, as the courage to seek truth. Leadership becomes showing others the path to their own beginning.

Reflective Prompts:

• How does this wisdom change what I'm seeking?

• What does it mean to embody courage as a spiritual path?

• Where am I being called to lead through honest exploration?

Stage 9: Purpose

Moon in Capricorn

Finding duty in our awareness. What is this reflection asking us to honor or tend to?

Your reflection finds its purpose in building and mastery. What structure does your courage want to create? What responsibility comes with your authentic power? The duty is to turn impulse into lasting achievement, to serve through disciplined self-expression. How does your spark become a foundation others can build on?

Reflective Prompts:

• What practice channels my courage into sustainable achievement?

• How does my authenticity serve long-term goals?

• What duty do I have to make my spark last?

Stage 10: Sharing

Moon in Aquarius

Bringing our insights into relationship. Cooperation with what we've learned.

Your private reflection on courage enters the collective. What happens when you bring your authentic self into community? Cooperation means letting your individuality serve the whole. The spark that seemed so personal becomes part of the larger fire. Revolution begins with one person's honest impulse.

Reflective Prompts:

• How does my courage contribute to collective change?

• What becomes possible when I bring my authenticity to community?

• Where does my reflection seek to serve the whole?

Stage 11: Alchemy

Moon in Pisces

Communal integration. Transformation through shared reflection.

Collective transformation of what individuality means when dissolved into the infinite. When your warrior nature merges with compassion, something alchemizes - courage becomes surrender, self-assertion becomes selflessness. What transmutes when you bring your spark to the ocean? What dies so universal love can include your particular light?

Reflective Prompts:

• What needs to die in my understanding of self?

• How does compassion transform my relationship to courage?

• What becomes possible when my authenticity serves the divine?

Stage 12: Wisdom & Completion

Moon in Aries

The harvest of understanding. Releasing back into mystery.

Full circle. Your reflection returns to Aries, but now you carry the wisdom of the entire journey. What have you learned about courage and authenticity? What truth has this cycle revealed about your own spark and will? There's completion here - not that you've become who you are once and for all, but that you've begun again with more awareness.

Reflective Prompts:

• What has this cycle taught me about being myself?

• What wisdom about courage am I carrying forward?

• What am I ready to release about needing to fight?

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Taurus New Moon

May 16 - June 13, 2026

Reflective Theme: Embodiment, sustainability, worth, beauty, pleasure, the senses, resources, patience, what endures

Draconic Undertone (Gemini): Reintegrating curiosity, communication, and connection as values. What worth is found in exchange? What beauty emerges through dialogue?

Literary Reflection: Like M.F.K. Fisher in The Gastronomical Me, reflecting on a single perfect meal: "It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others." The reflection on what truly nourishes, what sustains, what has lasting value.

Stage 1: Seed of Reflection

Moon in Taurus (May 16) / Moon in Gemini (May 20, Sun enters Gemini - back to Stage 1)

The pressure point. What value is asking to be noticed?

This cycle plants a seed about your relationship to worth, resources, and what sustains you. Where do you find real security? What actually nourishes? Notice the shift to Gemini as conversation arrives. What are you being asked to examine about embodiment, pleasure, and lasting value?

Reflective Prompts:

• What do I value that I haven't fully acknowledged?

• Where am I truly nourished versus just consuming?

• How do I relate to my own worth and resources?

Stage 2: Loosening

Moon in Cancer

Old patterns of security breaking down. Spacious detachment.

Your reflection on value and resources meets emotional truth. What if security isn't about accumulation? What if worth isn't earned but inherent? There's relief here as you release scarcity thinking, as home becomes less about what you have and more about how you feel. You're finding space between safety and control.

Reflective Prompts:

• What assumptions about security am I ready to release?

• Where has my pursuit of stability become rigidity?

• What opens up when I trust I'm already enough?

Stage 3: Incubating Awareness

Moon in Leo

Complex inner work. Feelings and memories gestating.

Something radiant is forming beneath your understanding of worth. What memories show you that your value isn't about usefulness but about being? Your reflection warms into creative recognition. The realization that you are the resource, that your presence is the gift, slowly gestating.

Reflective Prompts:

• What memories show me I matter beyond what I produce?

• What does my heart know about inherent worth?

• Where does my reflection want to shine rather than prove?

Stage 4: Recognition

Moon in Virgo

First impulses of awareness breaking through. "Oh, I see what I'm feeling."

Sudden clarity about what truly serves and sustains. You see it now - the difference between busy work and devoted practice, between consumption and nourishment. Your reflection breaks through with practical wisdom. Real value is in the details, the daily tending, the humble care that compounds over time.

Reflective Prompts:

• What am I suddenly aware of about sustainable practice?

• What realization about worth and service is breaking through?

• How does my understanding of value connect to devotion?

Stage 5: Sorting

Moon in Libra

Duality emerges. Sorting through feelings and intuitions.

Now you're sorting through what has value in relationship versus what you've been taught to value. Which resources actually serve beauty and connection? You're finding what's worth investing in - not just personally but relationally. The scales helping you determine true worth from false economy.

Reflective Prompts:

• Which investments actually nourish relationship?

• What duality exists between personal security and shared resources?

• How do I sort genuine value from empty transaction?

Stage 6: Connecting the Dots

Moon in Scorpio

Weaving insights together. Patterns become visible.

All these reflections on worth and resources suddenly connect to power and transformation. You see the pattern: the way your relationship to money and security relates to control, the way your sense of value connects to what you're willing to merge with or lose. Your reflection weaves together sustainability and surrender into coherent understanding.

Reflective Prompts:

• How does my relationship to resources connect to my relationship to power?

• What pattern links my sense of worth to my fear of loss?

• Where do security and transformation intersect?

Stage 7: Illumination

Moon in Sagittarius

Peak clarity. What was hidden is now seen. The mirror shows us ourselves.

Full moon energy - the truth about what gives your life meaning beyond material security becomes undeniable. This is where you feel the difference between having and being. It's not just about resources anymore; it's about what you value at the deepest level, what's worth building your life around. What do you see when you look at your true wealth?

Reflective Prompts:

• What does this reflection reveal about my real values?

• How do I feel about what I've chosen to invest in?

• What truth about worth and meaning is illuminated?

Stage 8: Integration

Moon in Capricorn

Taking root with what we've learned. Stepping into emotional leadership.

You begin to integrate this understanding of worth into structure and mastery. The insights about value become practical achievement. You own your resources differently now - as responsibility, as legacy, as what you build that endures. Leadership becomes wise stewardship of what you've been given.

Reflective Prompts:

• How does this wisdom change how I manage resources?

• What does it mean to embody worth as lasting contribution?

• Where am I being called to lead through grounded mastery?

Stage 9: Purpose

Moon in Aquarius

Finding duty in our awareness. What is this reflection asking us to honor or tend to?

Your reflection finds its purpose in collective well-being and innovation. What if your resources serve the community? What responsibility comes with your sense of worth? The duty is to liberate value from hoarding, to recognize that real security comes from everyone having enough. How does your sustainability serve the whole?

Reflective Prompts:

• What practice shares resources rather than accumulates them?

• How does my worth contribute to collective abundance?

• What duty do I have to question systems of scarcity?

Stage 10: Sharing

Moon in Pisces

Bringing our insights into relationship. Cooperation with what we've learned.

Your private reflection on worth enters the realm of universal compassion. What happens when you bring your understanding of value into spiritual connection? Cooperation means recognizing that true wealth is infinite, that worth dissolves in the ocean of grace. The material finding its place in the mystical.

Reflective Prompts:

• How does spirituality transform my relationship to resources?

• What becomes possible when worth isn't measured?

• Where does my reflection seek to dissolve security into trust?

Stage 11: Alchemy

Moon in Aries

Communal integration. Transformation through shared reflection.

Collective transformation of what value means when courage meets sustainability. When your understanding of worth merges with authentic impulse, something alchemizes - security becomes freedom, resources become tools for brave beginning. What transmutes when you risk what you have for what you could become? What dies so authentic living can flourish?

Reflective Prompts:

• What needs to die in my understanding of security?

• How does courage transform scarcity into possibility?

• What becomes possible when worth serves authenticity?

Stage 12: Wisdom & Completion

Moon in Taurus

The harvest of understanding. Releasing back into mystery.

Full circle. Your reflection returns to Taurus, but now you carry the wisdom of the entire journey. What have you learned about value and worth? What truth has this cycle revealed about what sustains and nourishes you? There's completion here - not that you've accumulated enough, but that you understand what enough means.

Reflective Prompts:

• What has this cycle taught me about true wealth?

• What wisdom about worth am I carrying forward?

• What am I ready to release about needing more?

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Gemini New Moon

June 14 - July 13, 2026

Reflective Theme: Communication, curiosity, connection, duality, information, adaptability, the messenger, perception, stories we tell

Draconic Undertone (Cancer): Reintegrating nurturing, emotional safety, and belonging as values. What communication creates home? What stories help us feel safe?

Literary Reflection: Like Joan Didion in "The White Album," reflecting on the stories we tell ourselves: "We tell ourselves stories in order to live." The examination of how we create meaning through narrative, how our perceptions shape reality, how the things we say become the life we live.

Stage 1: Seed of Reflection

Moon in Gemini (Jun 14) / Moon in Cancer (Jun 21, Sun enters Cancer - back to Stage 1)

The pressure point. What story is asking to be noticed?

This cycle plants a seed about your relationship to communication, information, and the narratives you've been living within. What conversations keep returning? What are you trying to articulate? Notice the shift to Cancer as feeling arrives. What are you being asked to examine about curiosity, connection, and the stories you tell?

Reflective Prompts:

• What story have I been telling myself without questioning it?

• Where does my curiosity want to lead me?

• How do I relate to my own voice and communication?

Stage 2: Loosening

Moon in Leo

Old patterns of performance breaking down. Spacious detachment.

Your reflection on communication meets authentic expression. What if you didn't have to be clever? What if your words could be simple and radiant? There's relief here as you release the need to impress, as conversation becomes less about wit and more about truth. You're finding space between talking and being heard.

Reflective Prompts:

• What assumptions about communication am I ready to release?

• Where has my need to be interesting prevented me from being real?

• What opens up when I detach from needing the right words?

Stage 3: Incubating Awareness

Moon in Virgo

Complex inner work. Feelings and memories gestating.

Something precise is forming beneath your relationship to language. What memories show you the power of careful attention, of words chosen with devotion? Your reflection becomes focused on craft. The understanding that communication is service, that details matter, slowly gestating in your awareness.

Reflective Prompts:

• What memories show me the impact of careful, devoted communication?

• What does my attention know about the craft of language?

• Where does my reflection want to serve through precision?

Stage 4: Recognition

Moon in Libra

First impulses of awareness breaking through. "Oh, I see what I'm feeling."

Sudden clarity about communication in relationship. You see it now - the way dialogue creates beauty, the way listening is as important as speaking, the balance required for real exchange. Your reflection breaks through with relational wisdom. True conversation is partnership, not performance.

Reflective Prompts:

• What am I suddenly aware of about dialogue and exchange?

• What realization about listening is breaking through?

• How does my understanding of communication connect to balance?

Stage 5: Sorting

Moon in Scorpio

Duality emerges. Sorting through feelings and intuitions.

Now you're sorting through what's surface conversation versus deep truth-telling. Which words have real power? Which stories need to be said aloud? You're finding what communication serves transformation versus what just fills space. The messenger descending into the underworld to retrieve what must be spoken.

Reflective Prompts:

• Which conversations actually transform versus just distract?

• What duality exists between polite exchange and vulnerable truth?

• How do I sort meaningful communication from empty words?

Stage 6: Connecting the Dots

Moon in Sagittarius

Weaving insights together. Patterns become visible.

All these reflections on communication and story suddenly connect to meaning and philosophy. You see the pattern: the way your narratives shape your beliefs, the way your curiosity seeks truth, the stories that expand your world versus the ones that limit it. Your reflection weaves together information and wisdom into coherent understanding.

Reflective Prompts:

• How do the stories I tell create the meaning I find?

• What pattern links my communication to my philosophical seeking?

• Where do curiosity and wisdom intersect?

Stage 7: Illumination

Moon in Capricorn

Peak clarity. What was hidden is now seen. The mirror shows us ourselves.

Full moon energy - the truth about your authority as communicator becomes undeniable. This is where you feel the weight and responsibility of your words. It's not just about conversation anymore; it's about what you build with language, what legacy your stories create. What do you see about your power to shape reality through communication?

Reflective Prompts:

• What does this reflection reveal about my authority as communicator?

• How do I feel about the structures my words create?

• What truth about language and legacy is illuminated?

Stage 8: Integration

Moon in Aquarius

Taking root with what we've learned. Stepping into emotional leadership.

You begin to integrate this understanding of communication into collective vision. The insights about language become revolutionary tools. You own your voice differently now - as innovation, as what serves the community, as communication that liberates. Leadership becomes using your words to advance collective understanding.

Reflective Prompts:

• How does this wisdom change how I contribute to dialogue?

• What does it mean to embody communication as collective service?

• Where am I being called to lead through innovative language?

Stage 9: Purpose

Moon in Pisces

Finding duty in our awareness. What is this reflection asking us to honor or tend to?

Your reflection finds its purpose in compassion and spiritual connection. What if your words serve healing? What responsibility comes with your ability to articulate? The duty is to let communication dissolve boundaries, to use language as bridge between the material and mystical. How does your voice serve universal love?

Reflective Prompts:

• What practice makes my communication an act of compassion?

• How do my words serve spiritual connection?

• What duty do I have to speak for those who can't?

Stage 10: Sharing

Moon in Aries

Bringing our insights into relationship. Cooperation with what we've learned.

Your private reflection on language enters bold, authentic expression. What happens when you bring your understanding of communication into honest, courageous speech? Cooperation means letting your words be direct, immediate, true. The messenger becoming the warrior who speaks what must be said.

Reflective Prompts:

• How does courage transform my communication?

• What becomes possible when my words are honest?

• Where does my reflection seek to initiate through speech?

Stage 11: Alchemy

Moon in Taurus

Communal integration. Transformation through shared reflection.

Collective transformation of what communication means when grounded in lasting value. When your understanding of language merges with embodied wisdom, something alchemizes - words become nourishment, stories become sustenance. What transmutes when communication serves what endures? What dies so truly valuable exchange can emerge?

Reflective Prompts:

• What needs to die in my relationship to communication?

• How does embodiment transform empty words into nourishment?

• What becomes possible when language serves lasting value?

Stage 12: Wisdom & Completion

Moon in Gemini

The harvest of understanding. Releasing back into mystery.

Full circle. Your reflection returns to Gemini, but now you carry the wisdom of the entire journey. What have you learned about communication and story? What truth has this cycle revealed about your voice and curiosity? There's completion here - not that you've said everything, but that you understand the responsibility of language more deeply.

Reflective Prompts:

• What has this cycle taught me about communication?

• What wisdom about stories and voice am I carrying forward?

• What am I ready to release about needing to always have words?

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Cancer New Moon

July 14 - August 11, 2026

Reflective Theme: Nurturing, home, emotional safety, belonging, the mother, memory, sensitivity, what we protect, roots

Draconic Undertone (Leo): Reintegrating creative expression, leadership, and radiance as values. What home allows you to shine? What nurturing serves your authentic self?

Literary Reflection: Like Toni Morrison in Beloved, reflecting on what it means to mother: "She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order." The reflection on how we are held, how we hold, what it means to create sanctuary for the soul.

Stage 1: Seed of Reflection

Moon in Cancer (Jul 14) / Moon in Leo (Jul 22, Sun enters Leo - back to Stage 1)

The pressure point. What needs holding?

This cycle plants a seed about your relationship to home, emotional safety, and the ways you nurture and need nurturing. Where do you truly belong? What memories are surfacing? Notice the shift to Leo as creative expression arrives. What are you being asked to examine about care, protection, and what creates sanctuary?

Reflective Prompts:

• What part of me needs more tender attention?

• Where am I truly at home versus just housed?

• How do I relate to my own vulnerability and need?

Stage 2: Loosening

Moon in Virgo

Old patterns of caretaking breaking down. Spacious detachment.

Your reflection on nurturing meets discernment. What if caring didn't mean fixing? What if home didn't require perfection? There's relief here as you release the burden of constant tending, as sensitivity becomes wisdom rather than overwhelm. You're finding space between caring and controlling.

Reflective Prompts:

• What assumptions about caretaking am I ready to release?

• Where has my nurturing become exhausting self-sacrifice?

• What opens up when I trust others can care for themselves?

Stage 3: Incubating Awareness

Moon in Libra

Complex inner work. Feelings and memories gestating.

Something beautiful is forming beneath your understanding of home. What memories show you that sanctuary is created in relationship, that belonging requires balance? Your reflection softens into partnership. The realization that you don't have to create safety alone, slowly gestating in your awareness.

Reflective Prompts:

• What memories show me home is built in relationship?

• What does my heart know about shared sanctuary?

• Where does my reflection want partnership in creating safety?

Stage 4: Recognition

Moon in Scorpio

First impulses of awareness breaking through. "Oh, I see what I'm feeling."

Sudden clarity about the depth of your emotional truth. You see it now - the intensity beneath your need for safety, the power in your vulnerability, the transformation that happens when you're truly held. Your reflection breaks through with fierce recognition. Real intimacy requires letting someone see the depths.

Reflective Prompts:

• What am I suddenly aware of about my emotional power?

• What realization about intimacy and safety is breaking through?

• How does my need for home connect to my capacity for depth?

Stage 5: Sorting

Moon in Sagittarius

Duality emerges. Sorting through feelings and intuitions.

Now you're sorting through what feels like home versus what you've been taught should feel like home. Which forms of belonging actually serve your growth? You're finding what emotional safety looks like when it includes freedom, expansion, meaning. The traveler discovering that home can be a philosophy, not just a place.

Reflective Prompts:

• Which forms of belonging actually allow me to grow?

• What duality exists between emotional safety and personal freedom?

• How do I sort genuine nurturing from limiting protection?

Stage 6: Connecting the Dots

Moon in Capricorn

Weaving insights together. Patterns become visible.

All these reflections on home and nurturing suddenly connect to structure and legacy. You see the pattern: the way your emotional foundation relates to what you build, the way your need for safety shapes your ambitions. Your reflection weaves together care and achievement into coherent understanding. Real success is built on emotional security.

Reflective Prompts:

• How does my emotional foundation shape what I build?

• What pattern links my need for home to my capacity for mastery?

• Where do nurturing and legacy intersect?

Stage 7: Illumination

Moon in Aquarius

Peak clarity. What was hidden is now seen. The mirror shows us ourselves.

Full moon energy - the truth about how you belong to the collective becomes undeniable. This is where you feel your place in the larger human family. It's not just about personal sanctuary anymore; it's about creating spaces where everyone can feel safe, where the wounded are held. What do you see about your role in collective care?

Reflective Prompts:

• What does this reflection reveal about my place in community?

• How do I feel about my responsibility to collective safety?

• What truth about belonging and liberation is illuminated?

Stage 8: Integration

Moon in Pisces

Taking root with what we've learned. Stepping into emotional leadership.

You begin to integrate this understanding of nurturing into compassion and spiritual connection. The insights about home become universal love. You own your sensitivity differently now - as spiritual gift, as capacity for divine care, as what dissolves all boundaries between self and other. Leadership becomes being sanctuary.

Reflective Prompts:

• How does this wisdom deepen my capacity for compassion?

• What does it mean to embody nurturing as spiritual practice?

• Where am I being called to lead through holding space?

Stage 9: Purpose

Moon in Aries

Finding duty in our awareness. What is this reflection asking us to honor or tend to?

Your reflection finds its purpose in courage and initiation. What if nurturing includes fighting for what you love? What responsibility comes with your capacity for care? The duty is to protect fiercely, to let your sensitivity fuel brave action. How does your home-making serve authentic living?

Reflective Prompts:

• What practice makes nurturing an act of courage?

• How does my care fuel authentic action?

• What duty do I have to protect what's vulnerable with strength?

Stage 10: Sharing

Moon in Taurus

Bringing our insights into relationship. Cooperation with what we've learned.

Your private reflection on home enters the realm of embodied value. What happens when you bring your understanding of emotional safety into sustainable resources? Cooperation means recognizing that real security is both felt and material. The emotional and practical weaving together.

Reflective Prompts:

• How does emotional safety connect to material sustainability?

• What becomes possible when home is both felt and built?

• Where does my reflection seek grounded, lasting sanctuary?

Stage 11: Alchemy

Moon in Gemini

Communal integration. Transformation through shared reflection.

Collective transformation of what home means when stories are shared. When your understanding of nurturing merges with communication, something alchemizes - memory becomes collective history, care becomes how we hold each other's stories. What transmutes when we speak our need for belonging? What dies so true intimacy through dialogue can emerge?

Reflective Prompts:

• What needs to die in my understanding of emotional safety?

• How does communication transform isolation into connection?

• What becomes possible when we share our vulnerability through words?

Stage 12: Wisdom & Completion

Moon in Cancer

The harvest of understanding. Releasing back into mystery.

Full circle. Your reflection returns to Cancer, but now you carry the wisdom of the entire journey. What have you learned about home and belonging? What truth has this cycle revealed about nurturing and emotional safety? There's completion here - not that you've arrived at perfect sanctuary, but that you understand what it means to be held and to hold.

Reflective Prompts:

• What has this cycle taught me about nurturing and home?

• What wisdom about emotional safety am I carrying forward?

• What am I ready to release about needing to be needed?

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Leo New Moon (Total Solar Eclipse)

August 12 - September 9, 2026

Reflective Theme: Creative expression, leadership, radiance, the heart, authenticity, generosity, play, being seen, courage to shine

Draconic Undertone (Virgo): Reintegrating service, craft, and devotion as values. What radiance serves? What creativity is refined through practice?

Literary Reflection: Like James Baldwin in The Fire Next Time, reflecting on the courage to be fully oneself: "Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure, does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity." The reflection on what it takes to shine in a world that may not want your light, the examining of authentic power.

Eclipse Note: This is a total solar eclipse - an intensified new moon inviting deeper shadow work around visibility, creative power, and what it means to take up space with your full radiance.

Stage 1: Seed of Reflection

Moon in Leo (Aug 12) / Moon in Virgo (Aug 22, Sun enters Virgo - back to Stage 1)

The pressure point. What light is asking to be noticed?

This cycle plants a seed about your relationship to your own radiance, creative power, and capacity to lead. Where have you been dimming yourself? What wants to be expressed? As an eclipse, this is an intensified moment - something about your visibility and authentic self-expression is ready to be seen in shadow. Notice the shift to Virgo as refinement arrives. What are you being asked to examine about courage, creativity, and being seen?

Reflective Prompts:

• Where have I been hiding my light?

• What creative expression is asking for my attention?

• How do I relate to being visible and taking up space?

Stage 2: Loosening

Moon in Libra

Old patterns of performance breaking down. Spacious detachment.

Your reflection on radiance meets relationship. What if shining didn't mean outshining? What if leadership was partnership? There's relief here as you release the lonely burden of solo spotlight, as creativity becomes collaborative. You're finding space between authentic expression and ego display.

Reflective Prompts:

• What assumptions about leadership am I ready to release?

• Where has my need to be special prevented real connection?

• What opens up when radiance includes others?

Stage 3: Incubating Awareness

Moon in Scorpio

Complex inner work. Feelings and memories gestating.

Something intense is forming beneath your relationship to power and visibility. What memories show you the cost of dimming, the danger of shining? Your reflection descends into shadow. The understanding that true radiance includes darkness, that leadership means facing your own depths, slowly gestating in your awareness.

Reflective Prompts:

• What memories show me what I've sacrificed by hiding?

• What does my shadow know about authentic power?

• Where does my reflection need to confront what I've been avoiding?

Stage 4: Recognition

Moon in Sagittarius

First impulses of awareness breaking through. "Oh, I see what I'm feeling."

Sudden clarity about the meaning and purpose of your creative gifts. You see it now - your light isn't just for you, it's in service of something larger, a truth that needs expressing. Your reflection breaks through with expansive recognition. Being yourself is a philosophical act, a statement about what's possible.

Reflective Prompts:

• What am I suddenly aware of about the purpose of my gifts?

• What realization about creative meaning is breaking through?

• How does my radiance serve a larger truth?

Stage 5: Sorting

Moon in Capricorn

Duality emerges. Sorting through feelings and intuitions.

Now you're sorting through what's sustainable creative expression versus unsustainable ego. Which forms of leadership actually build something lasting? You're finding what authentic radiance looks like when it's disciplined, when it's responsible. The artist becoming the master through patient practice.

Reflective Prompts:

• Which creative expressions have lasting value versus just momentary flash?

• What duality exists between authentic power and ego gratification?

• How do I sort sustainable leadership from burnout-inducing performance?

Stage 6: Connecting the Dots

Moon in Aquarius

Weaving insights together. Patterns become visible.

All these reflections on radiance and leadership suddenly connect to collective vision and innovation. You see the pattern: the way your unique gifts serve the community, the way authentic self-expression advances everyone. Your reflection weaves together individual creativity and collective good into coherent understanding. Your light illuminates possibilities for all.

Reflective Prompts:

• How does my creative expression serve collective liberation?

• What pattern links my radiance to community innovation?

• Where do authentic leadership and social change intersect?

Stage 7: Illumination

Moon in Pisces

Peak clarity. What was hidden is now seen. The mirror shows us ourselves.

Full moon energy - the truth about how your creativity connects to the divine becomes undeniable. This is where you feel that your gifts aren't just yours - they're channels for something infinite. It's not about personal glory anymore; it's about what wants to be born through you. What do you see about your role as vessel for creation?

Reflective Prompts:

• What does this reflection reveal about my relationship to creative source?

• How do I feel about being a channel rather than the origin?

• What truth about radiance and spirituality is illuminated?

Stage 8: Integration

Moon in Aries

Taking root with what we've learned. Stepping into emotional leadership.

You begin to integrate this understanding of radiance into courageous action. The insights about creativity become bold initiation. You own your light differently now - as honest impulse, as authentic beginning, as what refuses to be diminished. Leadership becomes having the courage to be first, to shine even when it's risky.

Reflective Prompts:

• How does this wisdom change how I show up?

• What does it mean to embody radiance as brave authenticity?

• Where am I being called to lead by going first?

Stage 9: Purpose

Moon in Taurus

Finding duty in our awareness. What is this reflection asking us to honor or tend to?

Your reflection finds its purpose in sustainable creation and lasting beauty. What creative practice can you commit to for the long haul? What responsibility comes with your gifts? The duty is to tend your light with devotion, to let radiance become craft that endures. How does your creativity serve what's truly valuable?

Reflective Prompts:

• What practice makes my creativity sustainable?

• How does my radiance contribute to lasting beauty?

• What duty do I have to develop my gifts with devotion?

Stage 10: Sharing

Moon in Gemini

Bringing our insights into relationship. Cooperation with what we've learned.

Your private reflection on creativity enters dialogue and exchange. What happens when you share your understanding of radiance through communication? Cooperation means articulating your gifts, teaching what you've learned about shining. The creative becoming the messenger, helping others find their own light.

Reflective Prompts:

• How does communication amplify my creative expression?

• What becomes possible when I share how I learned to shine?

• Where does my reflection seek to teach through words?

Stage 11: Alchemy

Moon in Cancer

Communal integration. Transformation through shared reflection.

Collective transformation of what leadership means when it nurtures. When your understanding of radiance merges with care, something alchemizes - power becomes protection, creativity becomes sanctuary. What transmutes when you use your light to create home for others? What dies so generous leadership can emerge?

Reflective Prompts:

• What needs to die in my understanding of creative power?

• How does nurturing transform solo glory into shared radiance?

• What becomes possible when leadership serves emotional safety?

Stage 12: Wisdom & Completion

Moon in Leo

The harvest of understanding. Releasing back into mystery.

Full circle. Your reflection returns to Leo, but now you carry the wisdom of the entire journey. What have you learned about your own radiance and creative power? What truth has this cycle revealed about authentic self-expression? There's completion here - not that you've fully arrived at your creative potential, but that you understand the responsibility and gift of your light more deeply.

Reflective Prompts:

• What has this cycle taught me about being seen and shining?

• What wisdom about creative leadership am I carrying forward?

• What am I ready to release about needing external validation?

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Virgo New Moon

September 10 - October 9, 2026

Reflective Theme: Service, craft, devotion, discernment, health, purification, analysis, the sacred in the everyday, useful beauty

Draconic Undertone (Libra): Reintegrating relationship, beauty, and balance as values. What service creates harmony? What devotion serves partnership?

Literary Reflection: Like Annie Dillard in The Writing Life, reflecting on craft: "How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing." The examination of devotion to detail, the way small practices accumulate into a life of meaning.

Stage 1: Seed of Reflection

Moon in Virgo (Sep 10) / Moon in Libra (Sep 22, Sun enters Libra - back to Stage 1)

The pressure point. What practice is asking to be noticed?

This cycle plants a seed about your relationship to service, daily practice, and the small acts of devotion that create your life. Where are you being called to refine? What needs more attention? Notice the shift to Libra as relationship arrives. What are you being asked to examine about craft, health, and useful work?

Reflective Prompts:

• What daily practice deserves more conscious attention?

• Where am I being called to serve or refine?

• How do I relate to the details that make up my days?

Stage 2: Loosening

Moon in Scorpio

Old patterns of perfectionism breaking down. Spacious detachment.

Your reflection on service and craft meets the depths. What if devotion didn't require perfection? What if useful work included shadow work? There's relief here as you release the burden of flawlessness, as analysis deepens into transformation. You're finding space between helpful discernment and harsh criticism.

Reflective Prompts:

• What assumptions about perfection am I ready to release?

• Where has my attention to detail become punishing criticism?

• What opens up when service includes shadow?

Stage 3: Incubating Awareness

Moon in Sagittarius

Complex inner work. Feelings and memories gestating.

Something expansive is forming beneath your relationship to daily practice. What memories show you that devotion serves meaning, that small acts accumulate into philosophy? Your reflection expands. The understanding that craft is a spiritual path, that service is a search for truth, slowly gestating in your awareness.

Reflective Prompts:

• What memories show me how practice creates meaning?

• What does my seeking know about devotion as a spiritual path?

• Where does my reflection want to expand beyond the practical?

Stage 4: Recognition

Moon in Capricorn

First impulses of awareness breaking through. "Oh, I see what I'm feeling."

Sudden clarity about how your daily practice builds lasting achievement. You see it now - the way small acts compound over time, the mastery that comes from devoted attention. Your reflection breaks through with structural recognition. Real success is the result of humble, consistent work.

Reflective Prompts:

• What am I suddenly aware of about how practice builds mastery?

• What realization about devotion and achievement is breaking through?

• How does my daily work connect to lasting legacy?

Stage 5: Sorting

Moon in Aquarius

Duality emerges. Sorting through feelings and intuitions.

Now you're sorting through what serves the collective versus what's just busy work. Which practices actually create innovation and liberation? You're finding what useful service looks like when it advances everyone. The craftsperson discovering their work has revolutionary potential.

Reflective Prompts:

• Which practices serve collective good versus just personal productivity?

• What duality exists between individual refinement and communal progress?

• How do I sort truly useful work from empty efficiency?

Stage 6: Connecting the Dots

Moon in Pisces

Weaving insights together. Patterns become visible.

All these reflections on service and craft suddenly connect to spirituality and compassion. You see the pattern: the way your attention to detail is a form of devotion, the way useful work serves universal love. Your reflection weaves together the practical and the mystical into coherent understanding. Every small act can be prayer.

Reflective Prompts:

• How does my daily practice connect to spiritual life?

• What pattern links my service to compassionate action?

• Where do craft and divine devotion intersect?

Stage 7: Illumination

Moon in Aries

Peak clarity. What was hidden is now seen. The mirror shows us ourselves.

Full moon energy - the truth about your courage to serve honestly becomes undeniable. This is where you feel that real work requires authentic action, that service means being brave enough to do what's needed. It's not just about refinement anymore; it's about having the guts to show up imperfectly and try. What do you see about courage in your craft?

Reflective Prompts:

• What does this reflection reveal about my willingness to serve authentically?

• How do I feel about showing up before I'm perfect?

• What truth about courage and craft is illuminated?

Stage 8: Integration

Moon in Taurus

Taking root with what we've learned. Stepping into emotional leadership.

You begin to integrate this understanding of service into sustainable practice. The insights about craft become embodied devotion. You own your work differently now - as something nourishing, as what has lasting value, as practice you can maintain. Leadership becomes modeling sustainable devotion over burnout.

Reflective Prompts:

• How does this wisdom change my daily practice?

• What does it mean to embody service as sustainable craft?

• Where am I being called to lead through devoted consistency?

Stage 9: Purpose

Moon in Gemini

Finding duty in our awareness. What is this reflection asking us to honor or tend to?

Your reflection finds its purpose in communication and connection. What if your craft is meant to be shared? What responsibility comes with your skills and knowledge? The duty is to teach what you know, to use your refinement in service of others' learning. How does your devotion become dialogue?

Reflective Prompts:

• What practice makes my craft an act of teaching?

• How does my service contribute to shared learning?

• What duty do I have to communicate what I've refined?

Stage 10: Sharing

Moon in Cancer

Bringing our insights into relationship. Cooperation with what we've learned.

Your private reflection on craft enters the realm of nurturing and care. What happens when you bring your understanding of service into emotional tending? Cooperation means recognizing that useful work includes creating safety. The craftsperson becoming the caregiver through devoted attention.

Reflective Prompts:

• How does my attention to detail serve emotional safety?

• What becomes possible when craft creates home?

• Where does my reflection seek to nurture through practice?

Stage 11: Alchemy

Moon in Leo

Communal integration. Transformation through shared reflection.

Collective transformation of what service means when it includes creative radiance. When your understanding of craft merges with authentic expression, something alchemizes - devotion becomes art, useful work becomes generous gift. What transmutes when you serve with your full creative power? What dies so joyful practice can emerge?

Reflective Prompts:

• What needs to die in my understanding of service?

• How does creative expression transform duty into joy?

• What becomes possible when craft serves radiance?

Stage 12: Wisdom & Completion

Moon in Virgo

The harvest of understanding. Releasing back into mystery.

Full circle. Your reflection returns to Virgo, but now you carry the wisdom of the entire journey. What have you learned about service and devotion? What truth has this cycle revealed about the sacred in your daily practice? There's completion here - not that your work is done, but that you understand why the small things matter.

Reflective Prompts:

• What has this cycle taught me about craft and service?

• What wisdom about devotion am I carrying forward?

• What am I ready to release about needing to be useful?

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Libra New Moon

October 10 - November 8, 2026

Reflective Theme: Relationship, partnership, beauty, balance, harmony, justice, cooperation, the mirror of the other, aesthetic refinement

Draconic Undertone (Scorpio): Reintegrating transformation, depth, and shared power as values. What partnerships enable profound change? What balance includes shadow?

Literary Reflection: Like Audre Lorde in "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House," reflecting on relationship and justice: "It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences." The examination of what true partnership requires, how beauty demands truth.

Stage 1: Seed of Reflection

Moon in Libra (Oct 10) / Moon in Scorpio (Oct 23, Sun enters Scorpio - back to Stage 1)

The pressure point. What relationship is asking to be noticed?

This cycle plants a seed about your relationship to partnership, beauty, and the ways you seek balance and harmony. Where are you compromising versus cooperating? What needs refining in your connections? Notice the shift to Scorpio as depth arrives. What are you being asked to examine about relationship, aesthetics, and justice?

Reflective Prompts:

• What relationship dynamic have I been avoiding looking at clearly?

• Where am I seeking harmony at the cost of honesty?

• How do I relate to partnership and my need for balance?

Stage 2: Loosening

Moon in Sagittarius

Old patterns of people-pleasing breaking down. Spacious detachment.

Your reflection on relationship meets philosophical truth. What if partnership didn't require abandoning your beliefs? What if balance included your authentic expansion? There's relief here as you release the need to make yourself small for harmony, as cooperation becomes honest dialogue. You're finding space between connection and contortion.

Reflective Prompts:

• What assumptions about relationship am I ready to release?

• Where has my desire for peace prevented necessary truth-telling?

• What opens up when partnership includes my full self?

Stage 3: Incubating Awareness

Moon in Capricorn

Complex inner work. Feelings and memories gestating.

Something solid is forming beneath your understanding of partnership. What memories show you that real relationships require structure, that beauty needs bones? Your reflection grounds. The understanding that lasting connections are built over time, that cooperation requires commitment, slowly gestating in your awareness.

Reflective Prompts:

• What memories show me relationships that endured because of structure?

• What does experience know about sustainable partnership?

• Where does my reflection want to build rather than just flow?

Stage 4: Recognition

Moon in Aquarius

First impulses of awareness breaking through. "Oh, I see what I'm feeling."

Sudden clarity about partnership and collective good. You see it now - relationships aren't just personal, they're political, they shape communities. Your reflection breaks through with revolutionary recognition. True balance serves liberation, real beauty advances justice. The personal is political.

Reflective Prompts:

• What am I suddenly aware of about relationships and social justice?

• What realization about partnership and community is breaking through?

• How do my connections contribute to collective transformation?

Stage 5: Sorting

Moon in Pisces

Duality emerges. Sorting through feelings and intuitions.

Now you're sorting through what's genuine partnership versus codependent merging. Which relationships honor boundaries while creating connection? You're finding what healthy cooperation looks like when it includes spiritual truth. The balance between separateness and union, clearly defined at last.

Reflective Prompts:

• Which relationships honor my wholeness versus expect my dissolution?

• What duality exists between connection and healthy boundaries?

• How do I sort true intimacy from enmeshment?

Stage 6: Connecting the Dots

Moon in Aries

Weaving insights together. Patterns become visible.

All these reflections on relationship and balance suddenly connect to authentic selfhood and courage. You see the pattern: the way real partnership requires both people showing up fully, the way beauty emerges when each brings their truth. Your reflection weaves together cooperation and individuality into coherent understanding. The best relationships call forth your most authentic self.

Reflective Prompts:

• How do my relationships actually support my authenticity?

• What pattern links my partnerships to my courage?

• Where do connection and self-assertion work together?

Stage 7: Illumination

Moon in Taurus

Peak clarity. What was hidden is now seen. The mirror shows us ourselves.

Full moon energy - the truth about what you truly value in relationship becomes undeniable. This is where you feel that real partnership must be nourishing, sustainable, grounded in bodies and resources. It's not just about aesthetic harmony anymore; it's about what actually sustains connection over time. What do you see about the material reality of love?

Reflective Prompts:

• What does this reflection reveal about what I truly need in partnership?

• How do I feel about the material dimensions of relationship?

• What truth about sustainable love is illuminated?

Stage 8: Integration

Moon in Gemini

Taking root with what we've learned. Stepping into emotional leadership.

You begin to integrate this understanding of relationship into communication. The insights about partnership become dialogue practice. You own your role in connection differently now - as curiosity, as exchange, as the courage to speak and listen. Leadership becomes modeling honest communication in relationship.

Reflective Prompts:

• How does this wisdom change how I communicate in partnership?

• What does it mean to embody balance as honest dialogue?

• Where am I being called to lead through clear exchange?

Stage 9: Purpose

Moon in Cancer

Finding duty in our awareness. What is this reflection asking us to honor or tend to?

Your reflection finds its purpose in nurturing and creating emotional safety. What if your partnerships are meant to be sanctuaries? What responsibility comes with your capacity for creating beauty in relationship? The duty is to tend connections with care, to let cooperation become home-making. How does your relating create safety for vulnerability?

Reflective Prompts:

• What practice makes my relationships acts of devotion?

• How do my partnerships create emotional sanctuary?

• What duty do I have to tend connection with care?

Stage 10: Sharing

Moon in Leo

Bringing our insights into relationship. Cooperation with what we've learned.

Your private reflection on partnership enters creative expression. What happens when you bring your understanding of relationship into authentic radiance? Cooperation means letting connections amplify both people's light. The mirror becoming the stage where both can shine.

Reflective Prompts:

• How do my relationships support creative expression?

• What becomes possible when partnership celebrates both radiances?

• Where does my reflection seek to shine with others?

Stage 11: Alchemy

Moon in Virgo

Communal integration. Transformation through shared reflection.

Collective transformation of what partnership means when refined through devotion. When your understanding of relationship merges with craft and service, something alchemizes - cooperation becomes daily practice, beauty becomes useful work. What transmutes when relating is a devotional art? What dies so sustainable partnership can emerge?

Reflective Prompts:

• What needs to die in my understanding of relationship?

• How does devotion transform romance into lasting partnership?

• What becomes possible when connection is tended as craft?

Stage 12: Wisdom & Completion

Moon in Libra

The harvest of understanding. Releasing back into mystery.

Full circle. Your reflection returns to Libra, but now you carry the wisdom of the entire journey. What have you learned about partnership and balance? What truth has this cycle revealed about beauty and cooperation? There's completion here - not that relationships are perfected, but that you understand what it means to truly meet another.

Reflective Prompts:

• What has this cycle taught me about relationship?

• What wisdom about partnership am I carrying forward?

• What am I ready to release about needing perfect harmony?

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Scorpio New Moon

November 9 - December 7, 2026

Reflective Theme: Transformation, depth, power, intimacy, shadow, shared resources, death and rebirth, what we merge with, the alchemical

Draconic Undertone (Sagittarius): Reintegrating meaning, truth, and expansion as values. What transformation serves growth? What depth leads to wisdom?

Literary Reflection: Like Mary Oliver in "In Blackwater Woods," reflecting on loss and transformation: "To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go." The examination of what must die, what it means to truly merge.

Stage 1: Seed of Reflection

Moon in Scorpio (Nov 9) / Moon in Sagittarius (Nov 22, Sun enters Sagittarius - back to Stage 1)

The pressure point. What transformation is asking to be noticed?

This cycle plants a seed about your relationship to power, depth, and the profound changes that reshape you. What needs to die so something new can be born? Where are you being called to face shadow? Notice the shift to Sagittarius as expansion arrives. What are you being asked to examine about intensity, intimacy, and transformation?

Reflective Prompts:

• What in my life is ready to die or transform?

• Where am I being called into deeper intimacy or shadow work?

• How do I relate to power and profound change?

Stage 2: Loosening

Moon in Capricorn

Old patterns of control breaking down. Spacious detachment.

Your reflection on power and transformation meets structure. What if letting go didn't mean losing everything? What if transformation could be grounded, sustainable? There's relief here as you release the need to control outcomes, as intensity finds its proper container. You're finding space between depth work and destabilization.

Reflective Prompts:

• What assumptions about control am I ready to release?

• Where has my intensity prevented sustainable change?

• What opens up when transformation has structure?

Stage 3: Incubating Awareness

Moon in Aquarius

Complex inner work. Feelings and memories gestating.

Something revolutionary is forming beneath your understanding of power. What memories show you that real transformation serves liberation, that depth work can be collective? Your reflection lifts to see the bigger picture. The understanding that personal shadow work contributes to collective healing, slowly gestating.

Reflective Prompts:

• What memories show me how personal change affects the whole?

• What does detachment know about sustainable transformation?

• Where does my reflection want to serve collective evolution?

Stage 4: Recognition

Moon in Pisces

First impulses of awareness breaking through. "Oh, I see what I'm feeling."

Sudden clarity about transformation as spiritual practice. You see it now - death and rebirth aren't just psychological, they're mystical. Your reflection breaks through with oceanic recognition. The boundaries between self and other, between control and surrender, dissolving to reveal universal truth. All transformation is returning home.

Reflective Prompts:

• What am I suddenly aware of about the spiritual nature of change?

• What realization about surrender is breaking through?

• How does transformation connect to compassion and the infinite?

Stage 5: Sorting

Moon in Aries

Duality emerges. Sorting through feelings and intuitions.

Now you're sorting through what's genuine transformation versus reactive destruction. Which changes actually serve your authentic self? You're finding what healthy power looks like when combined with courage. The phoenix learning discernment about what deserves to burn and what deserves to be kept.

Reflective Prompts:

• Which transformations actually serve my authenticity versus just create chaos?

• What duality exists between necessary destruction and harmful force?

• How do I sort empowered change from reactivity?

Stage 6: Connecting the Dots

Moon in Taurus

Weaving insights together. Patterns become visible.

All these reflections on transformation and power suddenly connect to embodiment and lasting value. You see the pattern: the way profound change must be grounded in the body, the way real depth creates sustainable worth. Your reflection weaves together intensity and stability into coherent understanding. Transformation that lasts is transformation that's embodied.

Reflective Prompts:

• How does my transformation need to ground in my body?

• What pattern links profound change to lasting value?

• Where do depth and sustainability intersect?

Stage 7: Illumination

Moon in Gemini

Peak clarity. What was hidden is now seen. The mirror shows us ourselves.

Full moon energy - the truth about needing to communicate your transformation becomes undeniable. This is where you feel that depth work isn't meant to stay buried - it wants to be spoken, shared, articulated. It's not just about private intensity anymore; it's about finding words for the wordless, teaching what you've learned in the depths. What do you see about the need to share your shadows?

Reflective Prompts:

• What does this reflection reveal about the need to speak my truth?

• How do I feel about articulating what I've faced?

• What truth about transformation and communication is illuminated?

Stage 8: Integration

Moon in Cancer

Taking root with what we've learned. Stepping into emotional leadership.

You begin to integrate this understanding of transformation into nurturing and emotional safety. The insights about depth become capacity to hold others through change. You own your power differently now - as the ability to create sanctuary for shadow work, as safe space for others' deaths and rebirths. Leadership becomes being the container for transformation.

Reflective Prompts:

• How does this wisdom change how I hold space for others?

• What does it mean to embody transformation as caregiving?

• Where am I being called to lead through creating safe depth?

Stage 9: Purpose

Moon in Leo

Finding duty in our awareness. What is this reflection asking us to honor or tend to?

Your reflection finds its purpose in creative expression and authentic radiance. What if your transformation wants to be witnessed? What responsibility comes with your depth? The duty is to let your shadow work fuel your creative power, to shine with what you've learned in darkness. How does your intensity serve your radiant gifts?

Reflective Prompts:

• What practice makes transformation fuel for creative power?

• How does my depth work serve my authentic expression?

• What duty do I have to let others see my shadows and my light?

Stage 10: Sharing

Moon in Virgo

Bringing our insights into relationship. Cooperation with what we've learned.

Your private reflection on transformation enters daily practice and service. What happens when you bring your understanding of depth into useful work? Cooperation means recognizing that shadow integration is practical, that transformation serves others through devoted action. The alchemist becoming the craftsperson.

Reflective Prompts:

• How does my transformation make me more useful?

• What becomes possible when depth work is practical?

• Where does my reflection seek to serve through what I've integrated?

Stage 11: Alchemy

Moon in Libra

Communal integration. Transformation through shared reflection.

Collective transformation of what power means in relationship. When your understanding of depth merges with partnership, something alchemizes - intensity becomes intimacy, control becomes cooperation. What transmutes when you share power in relationship? What dies so true partnership through vulnerability can emerge?

Reflective Prompts:

• What needs to die in my understanding of power?

• How does partnership transform my relationship to control?

• What becomes possible when transformation is shared?

Stage 12: Wisdom & Completion

Moon in Scorpio

The harvest of understanding. Releasing back into mystery.

Full circle. Your reflection returns to Scorpio, but now you carry the wisdom of the entire journey. What have you learned about transformation and depth? What truth has this cycle revealed about power and intimacy? There's completion here - not that all shadows are integrated, but that you understand the necessity and gift of darkness more deeply.

Reflective Prompts:

• What has this cycle taught me about transformation?

• What wisdom about depth and power am I carrying forward?

• What am I ready to release back into the mystery of death and rebirth?

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Sagittarius New Moon

December 8, 2026 - January 5, 2027

Reflective Theme: Truth-seeking, meaning-making, wisdom, philosophy, expansion, faith, adventure, the quest for understanding, higher vision

Draconic Undertone (Capricorn): Reintegrating structure, mastery, and authority as values. What truths earn their place as foundations? What wisdom deserves to be built upon as legacy?

Literary Reflection: Like Rebecca Solnit in A Field Guide to Getting Lost, reflecting on the journey: "Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That's where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go." The examination of what seeking means, why we wander, what we find when we're brave enough to be uncertain.

Stage 1: Seed of Reflection

Moon in Sagittarius (Dec 8) / Moon in Capricorn (Dec 21, Sun enters Capricorn - back to Stage 1)

The pressure point. What truth is asking to be noticed?

This cycle plants a seed about meaning - what gives your life direction and purpose? Where are you seeking? What beliefs need examining? Notice the shift to Capricorn as the sun changes signs. What are you being asked to examine about truth-seeking, expansion, and what you believe?

Reflective Prompts:

• What have I been seeking without naming it?

• What truth am I ready to look at directly?

• What beliefs are showing up in my emotional landscape?

Stage 2: Loosening

Moon in Aquarius

Old patterns of belief breaking down. Spacious detachment.

Your reflection on truth and meaning takes on an objective quality. Step back from the fervor of seeking and observe: which philosophies or truths have you been clinging to out of habit? What beliefs feel ready to be released? There's a cool spaciousness here, like looking at your own map of meaning from a distance.

Reflective Prompts:

• What truths served me once but feel outdated now?

• Where am I holding onto beliefs that no longer fit?

• What opens up when I detach from needing to know?

Stage 3: Incubating Awareness

Moon in Pisces

Complex inner work. Feelings and memories gestating.

Your reflection dissolves into the depths. Truth becomes fluid here - not rigid philosophy but felt knowing. What wisdom is gestating beneath conscious awareness? Dreams, intuitions, and memories blend together. The meaning you seek isn't in books or beliefs but in the mysterious feeling-sense that guides you.

Reflective Prompts:

• What does my intuition know that my mind hasn't caught up to yet?

• What memories hold wisdom I haven't fully absorbed?

• Where does my seeking want to surrender into simply feeling?

Stage 4: Recognition

Moon in Aries

First impulses of awareness breaking through. "Oh, I see what I'm feeling."

A spark! Sudden clarity about what you've actually been searching for. The gentle incubation gives way to direct recognition - bold, immediate, honest. Your reflection finds its courage here. What truth is breaking through with urgency? What do you suddenly see that demands acknowledgment?

Reflective Prompts:

• What truth am I suddenly brave enough to admit?

• What realization is demanding my immediate attention?

• Where does my reflection want to become action?

Stage 5: Sorting

Moon in Taurus

Duality emerges. Sorting through feelings and intuitions.

Now comes the work of determining what's real and lasting. Which insights have substance? Which truths have roots? Your reflection slows down, becomes tactile and grounded. You're separating the fleeting inspiration from the wisdom that deserves to be kept and tended. What's worth building on?

Reflective Prompts:

• Which of these realizations have real weight and substance?

• What truths feel nourishing versus depleting?

• What wisdom wants to be embodied, not just understood?

Stage 6: Connecting the Dots

Moon in Gemini

Weaving insights together. Patterns become visible.

Your reflection becomes articulate. All these separate moments of awareness start forming a coherent story. How does this truth relate to that memory? How does this belief connect to that experience? You're finding the narrative thread that weaves your seeking into meaning. The pattern reveals itself through curiosity and conversation.

Reflective Prompts:

• What story is emerging from all these separate insights?

• How do my various truths speak to each other?

• Who or what helps me articulate what I'm learning?

Stage 7: Illumination

Moon in Cancer

Peak clarity. What was hidden is now seen. The mirror shows us ourselves.

Full moon energy - the emotional truth at the heart of your seeking becomes undeniable. This is where you feel the meaning you've been reflecting on. It's not intellectual anymore; it's visceral, tender, vulnerable. The truth you've been circling shows you something about home, belonging, and what you truly need to feel safe in your beliefs.

Reflective Prompts:

• What emotional truth sits at the center of my seeking?

• What does this reflection reveal about what I need to feel secure?

• How does my search for meaning relate to my search for belonging?

Stage 8: Integration

Moon in Leo

Taking root with what we've learned. Stepping into emotional leadership.

You begin to own this reflection. The wisdom you've been processing becomes part of your identity, your creative expression, your authentic presence. This isn't someone else's truth borrowed - it's yours, integrated, embodied. You're ready to stand in it, let it shine through you. What does it mean to lead with this understanding?

Reflective Prompts:

• How does this wisdom want to express through me uniquely?

• What does it mean to own this truth as mine?

• Where am I being called to lead with what I've learned?

Stage 9: Purpose

Moon in Virgo

Finding duty in our awareness. What is this reflection asking us to honor or tend to?

Your reflection becomes practical service. What does this wisdom ask you to do? How does it call you to show up differently in your daily life? The grand philosophical seeking becomes humble practice. Truth isn't just something you understand - it's something you serve through careful attention and devoted action.

Reflective Prompts:

• What daily practice honors this understanding?

• How does this wisdom want to be of service?

• What small, devoted actions align with this truth?

Stage 10: Sharing

Moon in Libra

Bringing our insights into relationship. Cooperation with what we've learned.

Your private reflection enters dialogue. How does this wisdom change in the presence of others? What needs refining through relationship? You're testing your truths against beauty, balance, and other perspectives. The meaning you've been processing wants to find its place in connection.

Reflective Prompts:

• How does my truth need to make room for others' truths?

• What becomes more beautiful when shared?

• Where does my reflection seek partnership?

Stage 11: Alchemy

Moon in Scorpio

Communal integration. Transformation through shared reflection.

Deep transformation through collective vulnerability. Your private seeking becomes shared shadow work. What transmutes when you bring this reflection into the depths with others? There's power here - the wisdom you've been processing wants to merge with something larger, become part of collective transformation. What dies so something truer can be born?

Reflective Prompts:

• What needs to be surrendered for this wisdom to fully transform me?

• How does vulnerability deepen this truth?

• What becomes possible when this reflection is shared in the depths?

Stage 12: Wisdom & Completion

Moon in Sagittarius

The harvest of understanding. Releasing back into mystery.

Full circle. Your reflection returns to Sagittarius, but now it carries the wisdom of the entire journey. What have you learned about your seeking? What truth has this cycle revealed? There's a quality of completion - not that you've arrived at final answers, but that this particular inquiry has given its gifts. You release it back into the mystery, making space for the next seed of reflection.

Reflective Prompts:

• What has this cycle taught me about meaning and truth?

• What wisdom am I carrying forward?

• What am I ready to release back into not-knowing?